5 And thou shalt speak and say before the Lord thy God, A ^aSyrian ready to perish was my father, and he went down into ^bEgypt, and sojourned there with a few, and became there a ^cnation, great, mighty, and ^dpopulous:

  12 And Jacob fled into the country of ^aSyria, and Israel served for a ^bwife, and for a wife he kept sheep.